Creative England’s ishorts filmmakers get funding boost as their Crowdfunder campaigns unlock 40% more fundingNineteen of the UK’s hottest new producer/director teams have raised £40k through – helping them to unlock £100k of match funding as part of Creative England’s iShorts initiative.The iShorts campaign, delivered in partnership with Crowdfunder, as part of the BFI NET.WORK,[…]

Creative England has selected 19 new producer/director teams as part of a nationwide search to find the country’s best new filmmakers. iShorts is a short film initiative delivered as part of the BFI NET.WORK. Following hundreds of applications from aspiring filmmakers, the winning teams will each receive £5k of funding Creative England. In addition, each[…]

New filmmakers from across England will launch crowdfunding projects as a part of Creative England’s annual short film initiative: iShorts.Following hundreds of applications from aspiring filmmakers, 19 producer / director teams have been chosen to receive a share of just under £100k from Creative England. Each team will also launch a campaign on Crowdfunder giving them[…]

Five leading female game developers in England named as recipients of Creative England match funding via an innovative campaign with Crowdfunder called Queen of Code. Fareed, Lux & the Shadowmaker, Pocket Drakes, Star Catcher and Thinking are all innovative new game dev projects that featured in the Queen of Code Crowdfunder campaign. Ranging from an exploration of[…]

The Queen of Code campaign is currently under way. Creative England have partnered with Crowdfunder to give female game developers the opportunity to raise funds. Gamer and developer Bianka Kovacs creator of Pocket Drakes, a unique game based on the personalisation of dragons tells us why she decided to get involved with the Queen of Code and[…]

As we reach out to female game developers in England with Creative England, we talk with each of the women who are crowdfunding their game ideas as part of our #QueenOfCode campaign. Creative England interviews Constance Fleuriot about her game Lux and the Shadow Maker. Tell us a bit about your game studio and how it was formed? At the[…]

Our Queen of Code programme in partnership with Creative England is in full swing, with female game developers all working hard on their Crowdfunder campaigns to give their projects a boost! Alice Bowman is using the programme to fund her game Star Catcher, an atmospheric point-and-click adventure that takes its inspiration from fairy tales. Creative England talked[…]

Crowdfunder and Creative England have launched 14 innovative campaigns as part of their #QueenOfCode partnership to find and fund English women in game development.Female game developers and creators from across England have launched individual Crowdfunder projects to gain funding to make their great ideas a reality as part of Creative England’s Queen of Code campaign.Jaspal Sohal,[…]

We’ve joined forces with Creative England to find and fund England’s top female game developers and freelancers via an innovative crowdfunding partnership. A widely reported 49% of gamers in the UK are women but only 12% of the people making the games are female. This partnership aims to put the creative juices of the female counterpart of the[…]